This is an analysis of A Lesson by Ada Cambridge.

1.
I know now why the world was sad,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbab X aabbab X ccbbcb X aaddad
  • Stanza lengths: 1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,
  • Metre: 1 11110111 01100101 11110011 11110011 11011111 11101101 1 11111111 11110101 11111111 11011101 11111111 01001110 1 11110101 11110111 1011101011 11010101 11011101 11110111 1 11010111 11111111 110101111 11010101 11110111 11111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

i, and

Anaphora

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